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...happened in the current series of Victor Herbert revivals. Sweethearts had passed uneventfully (TIME, Oct. 7). Then Mlle. Modiste was advertised with Fritzi Scheff to sing the role she created 24 years ago. Oldsters could scarcely believe the newspapers and the great electric sign which flashed outside the theatre. But they bought tickets just the same, and went and wept and cheered. For Fritzi Scheff, now 50, still gives the illusion of sprightly youth, still plays the snare drums as the mascot of the troops, still sings bewitchingly "Kiss Me Again." Moist-eyed oldsters marveled and reminisced...
...follow: Mlle. Modiste (with Fritzi Scheff), The Fortune Teller, Naughty Marietta, Babes in Toyland...
...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
This is only Mlle. Keila's second season upon the stage. When asked if she had inherited any of her father's talent for sculpture, she replied that her only art lay in moving her legs; but that she liked dancing so well that she intended to make it her life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle...
...interview was Mlle. Keila's first in her two seasons, and she claimed that she was greatly excited. She apologized because the interview could not be held in her dressing room, as Mlle. Lezandre was costuming herself for the next number. The interview was therefore held in the wings, in a very noisy position. When asked if the audience could not hear the noise made backstage, she paused a moment while a member of the chorus and a scene-shifter had a slight verbal battle, in which terms were used hardly agreeable to Boston censorship. "Oh," said Mlle. Keila...